The increased incidence of herpes flares and development or worsening of viral warts in patients with IBD who receive azathioprine has now been demonstrated for the first time in a prospective study.

Tell your dentist that you are taking Azathioprine. Dental work, whenever possible, should be completed before you start taking Thioprine 50 or delayed until your blood cell counts are normal.

Azathioprine is an immunosuppressant, prescribed for prevention of rejection kidney transplantation. The serum concentration of the active metabolites of Azathioprine can be increased when ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Liver disease is a condition that affects the ...

Azathioprine is frequently prescribed for patients in whom first-line therapies fail, especially for those who are dependent on or do not have a response to systemic glucocorticoids; in general 40 ...

Traditional treatments for Crohn's disease include 5-aminosalicylic acid, corticosteroids and azathioprine, but these have limited efficacy in a significant proportion of patients with more severe ...

Corticosteroid therapy is effective in all forms of autoimmune hepatitis, and the combination of prednisone and azathioprine is preferred. Remission can be achieved in 80% of patients within 3 ...

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help in distinguishing AIH from other liver diseases. The treatment of Autoimmune Hepatitis involves medicines like steroids and azathioprine which suppress the immune system, further slowing or ...

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These include corticosteroids such as predisone, prednisolone, and methylprednisolone, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), azathioprine, and cyclophosphamide. Several drugs are currently in mid-to-late ...

The daughter of a woman known as the "matriarch of the family" has paid tribute to her after she died from tuberculosis ...